The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1887-11-02


ince, and that young woman is filing
r mind with an intelligence that
II yet either make her the chief attrac-
IN Of good mans home or give her an
dependence Of character that will quail
: her to build her own home and main
in it in q Happiness that requires no
gumentation from any Of our rougher
x.
That young man or young woman can,
the right literary and moral improve
emit of the spare ten minutes here or
ere in every day, rise head and shoulder
prosperity, and character, and influence
'ove the loungers who read nothing or
ad that which bedwarfs. See all the
rests Of good American literature drip
ng with honey. Why pick up the honey
mbs that have in them the fiery bees,
hich will sting you with an eternal poi
Va while you taste It'll One book may,
r you or me, decide every thing for
lis B,rld or the next. It was turn
s point with me when in Wynkoop's
'0iS tore, Syracuse, one day I
cNsd up q book called 1.-THE Beauties
= Ruskn." 1t was only q book OF ex-
Its, but it was all pure honey, and l
not satisfied until had purchased all
works, at that time expensive beyond
Easy capacity to own them, and what
Ven J won't through in reading his
wen Lamps Of Architecture" and his
ones Of Venice" it is impossible for me
describe, except by saying that it gave
rapture for good books and an ever
ting disgust for decrepit or immoral
ks that will last me while my immortal
lasts. All around the church and the
rid to-day there are busy hives Of in
gence occupied by authors and author
es, from whose pens drip distillation
len is the very nectar Of heaven; and
y will you thrust your rod Of inquisi-
mess into the beautiful saccharine of
ldItion,
timulating liquids also come into the
agory of temptations delicious but
thful. Won say: II can not bear the
70 of Intoxicating liquor, and how any
a can like it is to me an amazement."
H., then it is no credit to you that
do not take it. Do not brag about
r total abstinence, because 1t is not
n any principle that you reject alcohol.
but Tor the same reason that you re.
certain styles Of food-you simply
Vt like me taste of them. But multi
tes Of people have natural fondnesa
all kinds Of intoxlcants. They like
so much that it makes them
lack their lips to look at it. They
re dyspeptic, and they take it to aid
igestion; or they are annoyed by in
,mnia, aud they take it to produce sleep
r they arc troubled, and they take it to
lake them oblivious; or they feel good,
nd they must celebrate their hilarity.
hey begin with mint julep sucked
lrousn Ssso straws on the Long Branch
iazza and end in the ditch, taking from
Jug liquid half kerosene and hall
'hisky. They not only like it, but it is on
ll-consuming passion of body, mind and
oul, and after q while have it they will,
aough one wine-glass of it should cost the
smporal and eternal destruction of them.
elves and all their families, and the
'hole human race. They would say: ~
m sorry 1t is going to cost me and
~ family and all the worlds population
0 very much, but here it goes to my lips
nd now let it roll over my parched tongue
nd down my heated throat, the sweetest,
he most inspiring, the most rapturous
hing that ever thrilled mortal or immor
al" To cure the nabit before it comes &c
Is last stages various plans were tried in
lden times. This plan was recommended
a the books: "When man wanted to re-
orm he put shot or bullets into the cup OF
lass of strong drink-one additional shot
r bullet each day, that displaced so much
liquor. Bullet after bullet added day
" day, Of course the liquor became les.
md less until the bullets would entirely
Ill up the glass and there was no room
or the liquid, and by that time it was said
hat the inebriate would BIO cured
Whether any one ever was cured in tina
way know not, but by long experiment
t is found that the only way is to stol
hort of, and when man does that h,
reeds God to help him. And there hav,
,een more cases than you can count whel
God SO helped the man that he quit for
,ver, and I could count a score Of theu
here to-day. some Of them pillars in tn
house Of God. oH 3lta
One would suppose that men would TAX
warning from some Of the ominous name
given to the intoxicants and stand off iron
the devastating influence. You have nc
ticed, for instance, that some OF the res
taurants are called 1.-THE Shades" typica
Of the fact that it puts mans reputation
in the shade, and his morals in the shade
and his prosperity in the shade, and hi
wife and children in the shade, and his i'm
mortal destiny in tho shade.
Now, find on some Of the liquor sign
in all our cities the words ''Old Crow,
suggestive OF carcass and til
filthy raven that swoops upon it. ''Ol
Crowy" Men and women without nun
bers slain Of rum but unburied, an
the evil is pecking at their glaze
eyes, and pecking at their bloate
cheek, and pecking at their destroye
and womanhood, thrusting bea
and claw into the mortal remains OF wha
was once gloriously alive, but now morall
dead. "Old Crowl" But alas! how man
take no warning! They make me think {
Caesar on his way to assassination, learl
ing nothing; though his statue in the ha
crashed into fragments =. his feet, aud
scroll containing the names Of the conspi
ators was thrust into his hands, yet wall
ing right on to meet the dagger tbs
was to take his life. This infatuation {
strong drink is so mighty in many ma
that, though his fortunes are crashing, an
his health is crashing, and his domestic il
terests are crashing, and we hand him
long scroll containing the names Of peri
that await him, he goes straight on to phi,